Sociocognitive or socio-cognitive is a term especially used when complex cognitive and social properties are reciprocally connected and essential for a given problem.
It has been used in academic literature with three different meanings:[1]
- It can indicate a branch of science, engineering or technology, such as socio-cognitive research, or socio-cognitive interactions,
- It can refer to the integration of the cognitive and social properties of systems, processes, functions, as well as models, or
- It can describe how processes of group formation effect cognition, studied in cognitive sociology.
Socio-cognitive engineering
editSocio-cognitive research is human factor and socio-organizational factor based, and assumes an integrated knowledge engineering, environment and business modeling perspective, therefore it is not social cognition which rather is a branch of psychology focused on how people process social information.
Socio-cognitive engineering (SCE) includes a set of theoretical interdisciplinary frameworks, methodologies, methods and software tools for the design of human centred technologies,[2] as well as, for the improvement of large complex human-technology systems.
Both above approaches are applicable for the identification and design of a computer-based semi-/proto-Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS),[3] for the operators and managers of large socially critical systems, for high-risk tasks, such as different types of emergency and disaster management, where human errors and socio-cognitive organization vulnerability can be the cause of serious losses.[4]
Integration of cognitive social properties of systems
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Group formation effect cognition
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See also
edit- Cognitive science
- Cognitive sociology
- Memetics
- Situated cognition
- Socio-cognitive complexity in complex systems
- Socio-cognitive systems in systemics – they can be intelligence-based systems including humans, their culture, technologies and the environment.
- Sociology
- Systemics
References
edit- ^ C. J. Hemingway and T. G. Gough (1998), A Socio-Cognitive Theory of Information Systems, Technical Report 98.25, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, December 1998.
- ^ M. Sharples at al.(2002), Socio-cognitive engineering: a methodology for the design of humancentred technology Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, European Journal of Operational Research
- ^ A. M. Gadomski, et al.(2001)., Towards intelligent decision support systems for emergency managers: the IDA approach. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, Vol. 2, No. 3/4.
- ^ A. M. Gadomski (2009), Human organisation socio-cognitive vulnerability: the TOGA meta-theory approach to the modelling methodology, International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, Vol. 5, No.1/2 pp. 120-155.
External links
edit- Towards a cognitive memetics (2001), Cristiano Castelfranchi - Web pages.
- The socio-cognitive model of trust (2004–06) - Web pages of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC).
- Human Factors in Nuclear Power Plant Safety Management: A Socio-Cognitive Modeling Approach using TOGA Meta-Theory. (2011) International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants.